Tower Ascension

Born with nine spiritual roots, his fate was sealed—forever trapped at the second level of Qi training. A mountain boy, seen as worthless, is thrown into a cruel experiment by wicked cultivators. Yet, fate takes an unexpected turn. With the Void Tower in hand, he steps onto the path of cultivation. From that moment, the tower became his greatest asset—nurturing spirit herbs, raising immortal beasts, refining pills, crafting talismans, and constructing deadly formations. He walks a path of blood and schemes, seizing fortune through danger, surviving betrayals and hidden plots. Ages pass, and countless kneel before the Supreme Heaven’s ruler. But who would have imagined that his journey, too, was once filled with hardship, struggle, and survival against all odds?

In the city of Halcyon Bay, ancient powers stir, and dark forces threaten to unleash chaos upon the land. When Ryan discovers the hidden powers of the Celestial Reliquary, he is left to decide the fate of the city. With his stepmother Isabella leading an organization of dark magic users known as the Ascension, Ryan must unlock his abilities and forge unlikely alliances to protect the relic and stop the Ascension's evil plans. As the forces of light and darkness collide, Ryan is faced with impossible choices and unimaginable challenges, testing the limits of his courage and resolve as he discovers his archnemesis is none other than his confidant and friend, a reincarnation from his previous life. In this tale of magic and mystery, Ryan must embrace his destiny and confront the shadows that lurk within and without, lest Halcyon Bay fall into darkness forever. So, dear reader, are you ready to embark on a journey into the unknown? Open the pages of "Mystic Retribution" and prepare to be transported to a world where anything is possible and where the truest magic of all lies within the pages of a captivating story.

Leo Carter, a once-overlooked university errand boy whose life changes after awakening the Supremacy System. A mysterious system that gives him missions, rewards, money, business knowledge, and strategic advantages. At the beginning, Leo was humiliated constantly at Eastgate University, especially by Marcus Whitmore and the elite students connected to wealthy families. He worked like a servant on campus, wore embarrassing clothes, and was treated as invisible. Everything changed when the System activated. Now he wants Global ascension so nobody in this world will ever look down on him.

Driven into the lethal Mythic Tower, Austin was mocked as a lazy, mana-deficient trash. But while others fought for survival, he awakened the Cosmic AFK System. Now, he slays gods by taking naps. When enemies push him to the brink, Austin just yawns and unleashes divine punishment. "Don't disturb my naptime."

After being killed at the last level, Lucius suddenly woke up and found the recovery system in his body. Lucius restarts the game from the lowest level, then becomes the 'chosen one' who is taken to the Central Control Tower. Ever since arriving at the Central Control Tower, one fact was known: all players were guinea pigs of virtual game worlds created by the elite. Lucius must find a way to escape the virtual game world and destroy the system that will make the virtual game world a reality. How to free himself and all the players from the virtual game world that trapped them? How did Lucius' way and journey destroy the 'main' system in the real world? Under the rule of Dominic, the general manager—the virtual game character controller, their lives are at stake. *** [SYSTEM HAS OFFICIALLY ACTIVE] [WELCOME TO THE CENTER OF THE TOWER, PLAYERS 018! YOU ARE CHOSEN TO BE PART OF THE GAME!] [YOU NEED TO COMPLETE GAME CASES AND COLLECT POINTS LEVELS, STAT, AND SKILLS] [5%... 15%... 35%.... 47%... 67%... 77%... 89%... 100%] [SYNCHRONIZATION COMPLETED!] [YOU HAVE ENTERED A NEW CHAPTER OF THE GAME]

Every January 11th the Skeleton Tower waits. A photographer steps inside chasing whispers. A candle burns. A city holds its breath. Behind the glass is something older than the Thames, patient, hungry, and smiling with too many mouths. One flame stands between London and the drowning. One choice stands between mercy and eternity. And once you light it… you never truly leave.

They left him to burn in the ashes of his birthright, but they forgot that true power is forged in the fire. Arthur Sterling was born to inherit the most powerful martial legacy in the Aurora Empire, a family destined to guard the golden gates of the realm. But on the night of his ascension ritual, absolute betrayal strikes from within. His own uncle, Victor Sterling, allies with rival clans to slaughter the entire Sterling lineage, leaving Arthur broken and left for dead. The world believes the Sterling bloodline is fully wiped out, but unexpectedly, a reclusive master saves him.

In a world ruled by the Ascension System, survival is permission-based. At eighteen, every citizen is evaluated, awakened, and assigned a path. Those who fail are erased—cleanly, legally, without regret. Kael Ashborne fails. Declared unawakened, Kael is sentenced to execution inside a system-controlled dungeon. No skills. No stats. No divine interface to save him. His death is calculated, approved, and inevitable. Except it doesn’t happen. Through instinct, defiance, and choices the system cannot predict, Kael survives becoming a contradiction the Ascension System cannot classify or correct. Instead of granting him power, the system begins to observe him. Study him. Adapt. Hunted by system-enforcers and shadowed by a hidden group known as the Erased—people who exist outside recorded outcomes—Kael learns a terrifying truth: the system does not rule by strength, but by certainty. It closes futures, locks outcomes, and sacrifices possibility to maintain order. Kael can break those futures. Not by overpowering the system but by invalidating its decisions. As the system escalates from observation to rollback, rewriting time and reality to erase him, Kael’s existence begins to destabilize the world itself. Cities fracture. Laws glitch. People suffer under the cost of wasted authority. Forced to choose between survival and responsibility, Kael steps into a role no one was meant to fill: a living anomaly capable of reopening closed destinies. The system calls him a catastrophic variable. The world may call him something else.

Naji's heart beats once every twenty seconds. The clan called it proof that he was defective. Too heavy to cultivate. Too slow to ascend. Too worthless to inherit their name. But when his younger brother throws him into the bottomless Great Ravine during the sacred Ascension Race, Naji discovers a truth that changes everything: his curse was never a weakness—it was a shield. Now hunted by gods, betrayed by blood, and carrying a power capable of bending gravity itself, Naji must uncover the lie at the heart of heaven. Because while the world worships those who rise, he was born with the power to drag the heavens down.

Barned and rejected from entering into the king's palace, he became a live-in son-in-law of Lord Marcus. He was maltreated by his mother in-law, grandmother-in-law and wife's cousins. Fortunately, Charles had just received a letter of apology from the palace with a compensation of $900,000,000,000 for all damages caused to him and request for his ascension into the throne of The British Kingdom. Now, it's payback time to all who maltreated him as a live-in son-in-law and those who masterminded his banishment plots from the Palace which also led to his mother's death. "As long as I live, I must avenge Queen Ava's death!"